Carrier-track.



Patented March '7, 1905.

\VILLIAM MITGHEL, OF RAYMOND, WISCONSIN.

@AHFllER TR/AUK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,061, dated March 7, 1905.

Application filed February 12. 1904. Serial No. 193.339.

to (1 11/72/0121, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MrronnL, whose residence is in the town of Raymond, in the county of Racine and State of /Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carrier-Tracks, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

My improved carrier-track may be employed in any place and for any purpose for which it is adapted to be used; but the particular form of track shown in the drawings herewith was designed by me for use as a track for the travel thereon of a manure carrier or car of the general character of the one for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 674,870 were issued to me on May 28, 1901.

The track is so constructed that it is especially adapted for use with a stable or barn in which cattle are housed for carrying thereon the car or carrier in which manure is taken from the stable to a more or less distant point outside the stable and deposited either in front or at the rear of the door or o ening to the stable or at the right or left t ereof.

The invention consists of the construction, its parts, and combinations of parts, as herein described and claimed, or the equivalents thereof.

In the drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my improved track construction in connection with such a fragment or portion of a barn as is necessary to show the method of using the track in connection with such barn or permanent structure. Fig. II is a side elevation of a detail of the construction. Fig. III is a top plan view of the construc tion shown at the side in F ig. II. Fig. IV is an under side view of the construction shown at the side in Fig. II. Fig. V is a top plan view of a section of the track. Fig. VI is a side view of the section of track shown in Fig. V. Fig. VII is a detail of a trackhanger. Fig. VIII is a detail of a trackhanger slightly changed in form to adapt 1t for special use.

Fig. IX is an elevation of a swinging joint in my improved track. Fig. X is a top plan view of the joint shown. in Fig. IX. Fig. XI is a cross-section of an arm or truss forming a part of the construction of my improved track.

In the drawings, 1 represents the base- 1nent-wall of a barn and a door through it opening into a stable in the basement of the barn.

2 is a sill resting on the wall, and 8 is a post of the frame of the barn supportedon the sill. In the barn there are joists I, supported on the sills or framing, and 5 is the floor of the barn resting on the joists. Secured to the joists 4L and depending therefrom are hangers 6, which at their lower ends are riveted to cross-tics 7, and two rails 8 are secured to the respective ends of a series of these cross-ties in the barn overhead and in front of the door, forming a track of two horizontal parallel rails at a little dis tance apart on which the wheels of a carrier may travel, the wheels being mounted on the upper ends of arms proecting upwardly from the body of. the carrier in a manner well known.

In connection with such track in the barn or stable or permanent structure I provide an extensionof the track from the door of the barn or structure extending in. a horizontal direction and so supported to project from the barn or structure in a right line, with the track on the inside of the barn or so as to be capable of being swung to the right or left from such right line. My improved track for this purpose is constructed as follows: An arm or boom l) is constructed inexpensively and. satisfactorily of a plank l0 and a board 11, bolted or spiked to the plank along on the top of the plank, the plank inter secting the board at the middle longitudinal line thereof, and at the inner end this boom is provided with a hinged member 12, socured rigidly thereto, which hinge member has rearwardly-projecting lingers 13 in pairs at the top and at the bottom, which lingers straddle and bear against pintles 14, rigid on a hiitige-head member 15, secured to the sill 2 by screw-bolts 16. The arm 2) is supported in a horizontal plane by one or more stay-rods 17, (two being shown in the draw ings,) which at their upper ends are looped, and. thereby hinged in eyebolts 18, fixed in the barn-post 3. These stay-rods are anchored in the arm 9, conveniently by being put through the board and the plank of which the arm may be composed and se cured therein by nuts turning on the ends of the rods. The rods are also advisably provided with turnbuckles 19, by which the tension or length of the rods may be adjusted and the plane of the arm or boom regulated.

Secured to the arm 9 at short distances apart from its outer end to the inner end are hangers 20, conveniently made of strap iron or steel, to which at their lower ends are attached cross-ties 21 by bolts or other con venient means, and to the respective ends of these cross-ties rail-sections 8 are secured, conveniently by riveting them thereto. These rail-sections are so disposed as to form an extension of the track consisting of the rails 8 in the barn, and this portion of the track,

which may be called the boom division of the track, is provided with a flexible portion or oint at and adjacent to vertical alinement with the pintles 14 of the joint of the arm or boom. As shown in the drawings, the boom division of the track is made up in length of three sections 8% of the track, abutting endwise one on the other and riveted together at their abutting ends, the rails 8 of each section being offset at one end for making a desirable track-joint by the overlapping of the ends of the rails of the adjacent section thereon.

The joint by which the track of the boom division is connected to and made continuous of the permanent track is of a compound or flexible form of oint, so as to form a curved track at the joint when the boom and track are swung to the right or left. For this purpose a track-head 22 is provided having a medially upwardly extending leg 23, which leg is adapted to be placed against and fixed to some part of the barn structure, as the lintel over the door, and the head is provided in a lower plane with laterally-projecting brackets 24, on which the extremities of the rails 8 are adapted to rest and fit, the tops of the rails at their ends being flush with the top surface of the head. The head is also provided with a forwardly-projecting platehinge member 25 integral withthe head. T 0 this plate-hinge member 25 one or more platetrack-hinge members 26 are pivoted by vertical bolts 27, one after the other, and to the outer one of these an outer track-head member 28, substantially like the member 22, is pivoted. This member 28 is provided with brackets 24 similar to the brackets 24, and on these rest the abutting ends of the railsections 8, the rails being pivoted to the track-head member 28. The joints between the track-head members and the platetrack-hinge members are formed by curved ends of the members, so as to permit of their movement in arcs about their pivots. The top surfaces of the plate-track members 26 and of the wider parts of the track-head members 22 and 28 are as wide as the width of the track-sections 8 so that the top surfaces of these members along the line thereof form the track on which the wheels of the carrier may travel while passing the joint connection between the terminating track and the swinging or boom portion of the track.

For holding the boomextension track in a right line yieldingly with the permanent portion of the track a straight elastic spring 29 is inserted through lugs therefor on the trackheads 22 and 28 and on the plate-hinge members 26. This construction permits of the swinging of the boom division of the track to the right or left, in which position it may be secured by any convenient means and from which it will be returned to a right line with the permanent track when released by the action of the spring.

It will be understood that by this construction a suspended or overhanging track is formed outside the barn or stable continuous with atrack inside of the stable and which overhanging track may be swung to the right or left and on which a carrier may travel for transporting manure or any other material from the barn to a distance outside thereof either in front of or at the right or left of the door through which the carrier travels, where this load may be dumped. When the track is swung to the right or left, the angle in thetrack will be made in a curve at the joint or flexible section at its inner end.

l/Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a carrier-track construction, a permanent support, a horizontally-projecting arm pivoted at its inner end to the permanent support to swing in a horizontal plane, and a carrier-track suspended from the arm and pivoted to the permanent support by a flexible curving connection substantially in vertical alinement with the axis of the swinging arm.

2. In combination, a swinging boom-like arm, a plurality of hangers attached to the arm and depending therefrom, cross-ties secured to the lower ends of the hangers, and two track-rails secured respectively to the two ends of the cross-ties.

3. In combination, a permanent structure, a thereon-supported and laterally-projecting swinging boom-like arm, a permanent tworail track on said permanent structure, a two-rail track suspended from the boom-like arm, track-heads secured respectively to the adjacent ends of the permanent track and the swinging track, and a plurality of trackhinge members interposed between and piv- IO rail track on said permanent structure, a

two-rail track suspended from the boom-like arm, track-heads secured respectively to the adjacent ends of the permanent track and the swinging track, a plurality of track-hinge i 5 members interposed between and pivoted to the track-heads and. to each other connecting the permanent track to the swinging track by a flexible connection adapted to provide a curving track-section in alineinent verti- 2o cally with the pivot of the boom-like arm,

and. a straight elastic strap secured to the track-heads and to the interposed trackhinge members and adapted to hold the several pieces to which it is connected in straight line yieldingly.

5. In a carrier-track construction, a permanent structure, a boom-like arm composed of a plank or analogous timber having its greatest width in a vertical plane, and a board or analogous timber having its greatest width in horizontal direction and placed on the plank so that the ed e of the plank is along the median longitudinal line of the width of the board and secured thereto, a hinge connecting the arm at one end to the permanent structure, and a stay-rod attached to the arm at a distance from its inner end and hinged to the permanent structure in vertical alinement with the hinge of the arm.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM MITCH EL.

Witnesses:

ANNA F. SOHMIDTBAUER, ALMA KLUG. 

